Paul
Goble
Staunton, October 2 – Last January, the
Coordination Center of the Muslims of the North Caucasus issued a strongly-worded
statement in defense of the Ingush muftiate then being attacked by the powers
that be and now “liquidated” at their order (kcmsk.ru/index.php/novosti/69-zayavlenie-vneocherednogo-soveta-koordinatsionnogo-tsentra-musulman-severnogo-kavkaza).
But the
regional super-MSD has done little or nothing since, and Muslims in Ingushetia
are upset (paragraphs.online/article/421-ingushetiya-bez-muftiyata). What makes this
important is that other republics and republic leaders are now ever more likely
to view the Coordination Center as a meaningless institution with consequences
like those in Ingushetia.
Meanwhile, today there were three
other Ingushetia-related developments. First, the embattled journalists of
Daghestan whose flagship publication Chernovik was raided yesterday, organized
a demonstration to demand the freeing of Ingush activist Zarifa Sautiyeva (doshdu.com/zhurnalisty-iz-dagestana-prizvali-osvobodit-zarifu-sautievu-vo-vremja-obyskov-v-redakcii-chernovika/).
Second, representatives of the
Ambulance group who send food and medicine to those Ingush now detained for
their role in protests against the government met with the Council of Teips of
the Ingush People and issued a new public appeal for funds so that the group can
continue its work (zamanho.com/?p=13282).
And third, the
much-ballyhooed “World Congress of the Vaynakh Peoples” in Istanbul effectively
collapsed. Fewer than 30 people attended following suggestions by Ingush
organizations that the meeting had been dreamed up by Moscow to undermine the
Ingush and even to set the stage for the demise of their republic (fortanga.org/2019/10/turetskie-ingushi-sdelali-zayavlenie-otnositelno-somnitelnogo-vajnahskogo-kongressa-v-stambule/).
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